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P. H. REED,'D60d. A. A. REED, Executrix. WEATHER STRIP.

Atty.

INVENTOR,

Patented May 5, 1891.

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- UNITED STATES PATIENT QEEIQE.

PORTER I-IowEIlL REED, or cAIRo, NEW YORK; ALICE A. REED EXECUTRIX or SAID PORTER HOWELL REED, DECEASED.

WEATHER-STRIP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 451,641, dated May 5, 1891.

Application filed November 5, 1889. Serial No. 329,334 (No model.)

TO a 1071017 i1 may cmweiibr The curved arm 4: is adapted to engage the Be it known that I, PORTER HOWELL REED, door-frame at the point of contact 5 in closacitizen of the UnitedStates of America, residing the door, by means of which the free side ing at Cairo, in the county of Greene and State 6 of said metallic frame is powerfully forced 5 of New York, have invented certain new and bythe weight of the door down upon the door- 55 useful Improvements in VVeather-Strips for sill and made to conform to any inequalities Doors, of which the following is a specificain the sill, the frame thus carrying the flextion, reference being had therein to the acible covering and making the weather-strip companying drawings. both dust-proof and rain-proof.

I My invention relates to improvements in 7 represents a small spiral spring, which is 60 automatic Weather-strips for the bottoms of attached to the metallic rod Sjand is adapted doors; and the objects of my improvements to raise the free side of the metallic frame are, first, to provide a Weatherstrip which is and its flexible covering when the door is absolutely rain-proof and dust-proof; second, opened.

I to provide a weather-strip which will accom- 2 represents a longitudinal flexible cover- 65 modate itself to anyinequalities of surface on ing, one edge being securely fastened to the the door-sill; and, third, to provide a simple side of the door above the rod 3 by the fillet and inexpensive mechanism which is not or band, the opposite edge being fastened in liable to get out of order. I attain these oba suitable manner to the free side 6 of said jects by the use of the mechanism illustrated metallic frame, as shown at 10, Fig. 4. Said 70 in the accompanying drawings,in which flexible covering may be of any suitable ma- Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a door terial. I prefer rubber. with my improvements applied. Fig. 2 is a 5 represents the point of contact of curved side sectional elevation of a door about to be arm 4 with the door-frame.

closed; and Fig. 3 the same as last, with door 9 represents the door-sill. 75 closed, containing myilnprovements. Fig. at 11 represents a fillet or band by means of is a side elevation,bottom up,in detail,of my which the edge of the flexible covering 2 is improvements and showing theunder side. fastened to door.

3 represents a metallic rod forming one side The operation of the foregoing-described of a metallic frame, as shown in Fig. 4. It mechanism is extremely simple. Its adapta 8c extends across the side of the door at the botbility to the purposes designed is obvious tom, andis attached thereto by the eyes 8 8, without further explanation. The several in which it turns, its end being bent to form parts having been duly adjusted as described the curved arm 4, said curved arm being and set forth, on closing the door the curved placed towardthe free edge of the door. The arm 4 engages at point of contact 5 the side 85 corresponding side 6 of said metallic frame of the door-frame, by which means the free is formed from a single metallic rod or wire side 6 of the flexible metallic frame and the of a smaller diameter than the rod 3, said flexible covering 2 are forced down upon the Wire being bent at its ends at right angles door-sill 9, accommodating themselves to any and the ends extended so as to be connected inequalities in the door-sill, as set forth. 9:) with and be securely fastened into the side Having fully described my invention, what of and near the ends of the rod 3, thus form- I claim as new, and desire to secure by Leting the remaining side and the ends of said ters Patent in an automatic weather-strip,is metallic frame, which extends across the botl. The combination of an elongated flexible tom of the door and being adapted to carry metallic frame adapted to be attached to the 5 the flexible covering 2. Said metallic frame bottom of the side of a door and to carry a is flexible, and the side 6 is adapted to acflexible covering, the rod forming the side of commodate itself to the inequalities of the the frame which is attached to the door bedoor-sill when applied to a door where the sill ing extended toward the free edge of the door has been worn away and become uneven. and bent downwarc'l, forming a curved arm, 10o

one edge of said covering beingfastened also 2 to the bottom of the side of the door, the other edge being fastened to the free side of said frame, and of the spiral spring '7, as and for the purposes set forth and described.

2. An automatic weather-strip for the bottoms of doors, consisting of a longitudinal flexible metallic frame adapted to be attached to the bottom of the side of a door by means of the eyes 8 S, the end of therod formingthe side of the frame which is attached to the door being extended toward the free edge of the door, forming; a curved arm, said frame being also adapted to carry a flexible covering, one.edge of said covering being attached by a fillet or band 11 to the side of the door above the eyes 8 8, the other edge being secured to the free side (i of said frame, and of the spiral spring 7, all in combination, as and for the purposes substantially as described.

PORTER l [OWE LL REED.

Witnesses:

l d-1am: Dneunn, Emma W. lllAl-IGISON. 

